#leucus

[galusandmalus]

nauplius: you should seduce Idomeneus wife

Leucus: ah i get you

*kills her and his own wife, who's her daughter, and her brothers and destroys multiple cities

nauplius:

[papertiigertrolls]

its a g-g-GHOST!! 😳

this is leucus and he's a loser cerulean who's afraid of his own shadow 😔 it's too bad he's perpetually tormented by actual ghouls and demons on top of that!!

[blasteffect]

Lucy: Inspiration and Asteroids

NASA's Lucy mission will explore a record-breaking number of asteroids, flying by one asteroid in the solar system’s main asteroid belt, and by seven Trojan asteroids.

This illustration is of the Lucy mission's seven targets: the binary asteroid Patroclus/Menoetius, Eurybates, Orus, Leucus, Polymele, and the main belt asteroid DonaldJohanson.

Image Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

[galusandmalus]

bro really lost his kingdom to a evil robot

why is trayzn running crete lmao

"For not quietly shall the fisherman voyage, rowing his two-oared boat, to stir up Leucus, guardian of the kingdom, and weaving hate with lying wiles. He shall spare neither the children of Meda the wedded wife, in the rage of his mind, nor the daughter Cleisithera, whom her father shall betroth unhappily to the serpent whom he himself has reared. All will he slay with impious hands in the temple, maltreated and abused in the Trench of Oncaea."- Lycophron, Alexandra "Meda, wife of Idomeneus, with Leucus. But Leucus killed her, together with her daughter Clisithyra, who had taken refuge in the temple; and having detached ten cities from Crete he made himself tyrant of them; and when after the Trojan War Idomeneus landed in Crete, Leucus drove him out. These were the earlier contrivances of Nauplius" -Apollodorus "Leucus": Leucus, son of Talos of bronze, to whom Idomeneus entrusted the kingdom and the house when he left for Troy. Nauplios persuades this man to seize the kingdom of Idomeneus. He killed Idomeneus' wife, called Meda, and his daughter Cleisithera, whom he promised to give him as a wife when he returned from Troy he also killed his sons Iphiclus and Lycus. When Idomeneus returned from Troy, he blinded the rebel Leucus. This Leucus was exposed as a child, whom Idomeneus took and raised as his own. Therefore, he calls him a fostered serpent" -Tzetzes, Ad Lycophronem "Leucus, the son of Talos, bloodthirsty Leucus), Even himself flees somewhere far, flees the island of Crete. He was pursued, though, by this Leucus, who was exceedingly powerful."-Chiliades

[batmantobeowulf]

To Avenge

It's not exactly a secret that Odysseus and the other characters of The Iliad were killing machines. Morality in ancient Greece is a little more, shall we say, flexible, than in today's time. If you did something wrong, such as killing a friend, you, in turn would be killed for it. 

So when Leucus, Odysseus's friend, is tragically killed by Democoon, Odysseus wastes no time in avenging his dear friend.

"Enraged at his friend's death Odysseus sprang in fury,

helmed in fiery bronze he plowed through the front

and charging the enemy, glaring left and right

he hurled his spear - a glinting brazen streak -

and the Trojans gave ground, scattering back, 

panicking there before his whirling shaft - 

a direct hit! Odysseus struck Democoon,

Priam's bastard son come down from Abydos,

Priam's racing stables. Incensed for the dead,

Odysseus speared him straight through one temple

and out the other punched the sharp bronze point

and the dark came swirling thick across his eyes - 

down he crashed, armor clanging against his chest." (IV: 570-582)

Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your view point, the times are a changing, and we know longer support the eye for an eye justice system. This was the crux of the problem in DC's newest animated release, Superman vs. The Elite. The Elite, while 'good guys', saw no problem with killing off criminals (which a disturbing amount of the populace was okay with). This all lead up to this climatic and terrifying scene

And, of course, Superman proved that letting the justice system do it's duty was the proper way to handle your problems.

However, that hardly means that avenging is gone from comics (there's a whole team and now billion dollar franchise devoted to it). Even brutal avenging, a death for a death, is seen, such as in this page from Thor 306 where the Firelord attempts to kill Thor for apparently killing the Firelord's ally Gabriel:

Everything gets sorted out, no one gets killed, and Thor and the Firelord go back to being allies themselves, which struck me as odd. Superman, and I'd venture to say even Captain America, would not have accepted this behavior from the Firelord and would have hence forth seen him as a threat. But Thor's just like 'Cool, thanks for not killing me since I didn't actually do anything wrong.', implying that the Firelord would have had the right to kill Thor had the latter actually done it.

This is why I love Thor though. The writers really give him that old world Norse attitude in regards to his morality. He creates an awesome juxtaposition to other characters in the Superhero universes. I'll definitely be writing more on this one.